Legal support for SMEs and growing businesses
Expert legal support for SMEs and growing businesses, from funding and contracts to privacy and employment law. Scale your business with confidence.
Give your growing business all the help it needs, with targeted legal support for SMEs.
As you begin building teams, preparing for funding rounds and raising investment, your needs grow more complex – and the legal risks increase too.
You’re likely to be signing more intricate commercial agreements while handling more relationships with both suppliers and customers, all under pressure. The temptation to make ad hoc decisions can be strong, but poor contracts, compliance gaps, or weak agreements can quickly become costly.
Create a structured framework with our tailored legal services and support for growing SMEs that keeps pace with your growth.
Our SME lawyers help growing teams handle investor negotiations, data protection requirements, employment compliance, and complex commercial agreements - so you can scale without legal friction.
Investment lawyers and venture capital legal services
Fundraising requires navigating complex negotiations with investors, term sheets and legal agreements that determine your equity dilution, board control and exit rights. Protect your business interests while fundraising, with help from venture capital lawyers who can guide you through every step of the process.
From preparing pitch documents to negotiating term sheets and finally closing the deal, our investment lawyers can make sure you don’t risk diluting your equity (or how much you retain on exit) or losing control of your business.
Our venture capital legal services let you be confident in your fundraising negotiations and investment agreements so you can focus on building the business, not firefighting paperwork.
Commercial agreements and business contracts
Growing businesses need robust client contracts and supplier agreements to protect them when problems arise.
Unclear or generic agreements can leave you vulnerable and unable to enforce your terms in the face of a dispute, especially as commercial relationships become more complex.
Our commercial contract solicitors can help you manage risk and keep your contracts clear, through the right legal documentation and support that’s practical, commercially minded and built around how your business actually operates.
Our team can also help you build a contract management system as you scale, with playbooks to help you to self-serve as much as possible.
Proper commercial contracts protect your cash flow, limit your liability, and clarify expectations before problems arise.
Data protection lawyers and privacy compliance services
The bigger your business grows, the more customer and client data you’ll need to handle, and your data handling obligations become more complex: new systems, vendors with data access, international operations, and employee data management This is likely to include ‘personal data’. Privacy (including GDPR) compliance becomes critical for scaling companies and failing to protect the data you handle can run the risk of:
• Fines.
• Reputational damage.
• Operational disruption.
Keep things on track as you scale, with support from our data protection lawyers. From building compliant data systems to ongoing support, our privacy compliance services can help you stay compliant without slowing your business down.
Our data protection lawyers help you:
(a) Conduct privacy compliance audits and gap assessments.
(b) Draft privacy policies and data processing agreements.
(c) Implement data subject rights processes (access requests, deletions, portability).
(d) Manage vendor and processor contracts.
(e) Train teams on data protection practices.
(f) Respond to data breaches and regulatory inquiries.
Outsourced data protection officer (DPO) services
Not all SMEs need a full-time data protection officer to monitor internal compliance or privacy policies. You might find that an outsourced data protection officer is able to help you handle privacy requirements efficiently.
Outsourced DPO services provide expertise without overhead and can help you ensure that you’re meeting data protection requirements without the cost of building a full in-house function.
Employment law and employment contract services
Once your business starts hiring, it’s time to ensure you have all your legally required employee documentation and employment contracts in place. We have HR and employment legal services to help you with everything from employee contracts to worker classification risks and handling sensitive redundancy processes.
Our HR and employment lawyers will help you create a strong hiring and firing policy and draft employment documents that:
• Meet all legal requirements.
• Reduce the risk of disputes.
• Clearly define the terms of employment.
• Help you attract and retain top talent.
Employment disputes are costly and damaging. Getting it right from the start prevents unfair dismissal claims, worker classification disputes, and regulatory enforcement.
Our employment law services include:
(a) Employment contract drafting (employees and contractors).
(b) Employment handbooks and policies.
(c) Worker classification advice (employee vs. contractor risk).
(d) Termination and exit agreements.
(e) Employee option schemes and share incentive plans.
(f) Workplace disputes and HR legal advice.
We help you create a strong, compliant employment documents, and reduce dispute risk as your team expands.
Fast, efficient and reliable legal support for SMEs – we make sure everything is clear and concise, so you can get the commercial support that leaves you confident and in control.
Get in touch for a consultation or simply a chat about where your business is heading next.
Abdul Khan
We act as an extension of your team and handle any overflow in specialist areas.
Working across five continents, operating in multiple sectors, with over 700 clients.
Offices in London | Dubai.
THAT CAN SCALE?
Speak to our employment law solicitors today and build your team with clarity and confidence.
